i just spent 3 days formation flying and or escorting in the south west. i generally had a visual on 1-2 targets and could see when the xrx was correct and when not.

first i am impressed and the unit worked well over all. i have no rearward vision and eventually it made sense to me to fly the lead because the xrx allowed me to track the rest of the formation.

all the flying was mountain flying, close to the terrain and the coverage was good but with some dead times where there were no targets. i could see the traffic about 90% of the time.

targets close in front of me sometimes showed behind me.

targets below me with only belly xponder antennas were sometimes not seen on the xrx.

up and down antennas on all traffic would be nice. it made me think that if i want to be seen by other cas systems i should be high but if i want to see more traffic low is better.